Deputy Chairperson, I move without notice:
That the Council -
1) notes the ongoing saga of yet another Minister or Deputy Minister in the government incurring expenditure running into the millions by regularly booking into a five-star hotel, several days a week, for a stretch of four years, at a cost to the taxpayer of around R5 000 a night, in spite of having his official residence only a few hundred metres away;
2) further notes the failure of the government to curb such unnecessary expenditure considering that it is now having to deal with a growing deficit; and
3) recognises the dismal failure of government to inculcate a higher moral conscience in public representatives and government Ministers, seeing how morally bankrupt many of them are.